Bloglines is an RSS feed reader and aggregation service operated by Ask Media Group that fetches and parses syndicated content from blogs and websites to display updates to its users. Its operator does not commit to following robots.txt.

At a glance

Operator: Ask
Type: Feed Reader

How Centinel checks it

User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.

Bloglines publishes nothing Centinel can check a source against, so a match reports the name and leaves the source unconfirmed. The match tokens, verification domains, and address feeds are not published here.

Allowing or blocking it

The crawler object in the /validate response sets access_allowed to true only for a verified source that your tenant allowlists. A policy rule can allow or block this crawler by its category, Feed Reader.

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